Bipolar Nation: A big shift in our understanding of mood disorders is under way, with many depressed people now being reclassified as bipolar. But is trading antidepressant drugs for mood stabilisers a sign of progress, or just the latest diagnostic fad? [Prospect]
Depression Hurts the Immune System: Depression is a whole-body disorder. There’s accumulating evidence that the illness has deleterious effects on the heart, the brain, the bones and metabolism. Now comes proof that it undermines the immune system as people age. [Psychology Today]
Human behaviour: nature, nurture, the war’s over: Last week’s study showing how genetic and environmental factors combine to affect people’s risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is only the latest to show that most aspects of health and personality are governed by both. [Times]
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